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    Laugh A Little

    … on holidays blooming not looming

    Okay, c’mere. ‘Cuz the holidays are nearly upon us. These times are a concoction of many emotions and experiences and some are pretty good. But some have you “accidentally”... Read More

    Tags: holiday stress, wonder, musings, holiday wonder, Christmas, holidays in maine, Boothbay Register, christmas in maine, just ponderin', maine blogger, southport maine, midcoast maine, secrets of happiness, coastal maine, holidays

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    Laugh A Little

    … on a nutty day turned good

    Yesterday got away from me. I’d left the house at about 9 am, heading north to Beth’s to order a turkey. I was probably about 45 minutes from home... Read More

    Tags: just ponderin', southport maine, moving to maine, midcoast maine, winter in maine, Boothbay Harbor, sandwich generation, coastal maine, Thistle Inn, musings, caregiving, maine

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    Think A Little

    … on meeting a bombogenesis

    Bombogenesis! No I am not kidding! That is what happened to us the other night… well, us and a million or so other Mainers (Maine-iacs, Maine-iacals, Maine-sters, okay-I’ll-stop). Also... Read More

    Tags: just ponderin', midcoast maine, coastal maine, bombogenesis, midcoast maine storm, maine power outage, ocean photography, musings, photography

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    Laugh A Little

    … on seagull jealousy

      I woke up to a seagull screech That turned into a fight I guessed it was a morning tiff Continued from last night. Heard something ’bout ‘the perfect... Read More

    Tags: maine, poem, poetry, photography, just ponderin', midcoast maine, coastal maine, seagull, musings

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    Think A Little

    … on home making

    The other morning, Granny and I were sitting in the Vampire Room* sipping our coffee and talking about nothing, though everything was not off limits. At one point, I... Read More

    Tags: musings, moving, just ponderin', midcoast maine, new home, making a house a home

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    Laugh A Little

    … on love in the time of (potential) cholera

    As I’d mentioned, it’s our first fall in Maine and it happens to be a strange one. Usually, by the end of October, the foliage has already peaked and... Read More

    Tags: Beth's Farm Market, musings, maine, just ponderin', midcoast maine, autumn in maine, fall in new england, fall in maine, coastal maine, new england farm stands

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    Think A Little

    … on a busy mind calmed

    Last week was a crazy sad and frightening and bewildering week, for sure. For me, the more public news of the horrors in Las Vegas, and the death of... Read More

    Tags: The Inn and gardens, recentering, musings, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', robert fulghum, all i really needed to know I learned in kindergarten, annie sloan chalk paint, chalk paint on metal, chalk paint lamp, diy, arts and crafts

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    Cry A Little

    … on waves

    Waves have it hard. I mean, we treat them as if they are hard. Especially big ones. They don’t touch or caress or embrace… They crash, And pound, And batter the rocks and... Read More

    Tags: photography, just ponderin', midcoast maine, secrets of happiness, Las Vegas Massacre, Tom Petty, Death of Tom Petty, Waves, secrets of wonder, musings

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    Think A Little

    … on a day and a night of tailgating

    The other day I was up early and I can’t remember why. Oh no wait. I was up early to bring Gronk* down to the car place to have... Read More

    Tags: musings, just ponderin', midcoast maine, secrets of happiness, tailgating, speeding, how to deal with a tailgater, how to deal with an aggressive driver

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    Think A Little

    … on the needs of my seasoned soul

    My friend Kim is an amazing mom, cook, yoga do-er and instructor (she has only instructed me once and I laughed my way through the whole thing),  athlete, friend,... Read More

    Tags: musings, just ponderin', aging, Wonder Proxy, Being Mortal, A Sense of Wonder, medicine and aging

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    Laugh A Little

    … on falling too fast

    This is the first September we’ve spent in Maine since we stumbled across The Inn* (and made the ‘holy-cow-can-you-believe-we-are-doing-this decision to buy it) more than twelve years ago. For... Read More

    Tags: autumn in maine, fall in midcoast maine, musings, family, joy, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', midcoast maine

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    Laugh A Little

    … on an unpermitted business

      The dragonflies. They’re back. And, Houston? We have a problem. Because I think I’m running an un-permitted brothel. I know. Madam Dingle. It’s like a bunch of sex-crazed... Read More

    Tags: drama, acting, musings, just ponderin', just pondering, midcoast maine, dragonfly, memories of childhood, bug day, shyness, shy children

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Bathtub Mary

In Somerville, Massachusetts, where I spent the first five or six years of my life (it seems to be hotly debatable in my family), people often put statues of the Virgin Mary in their front yards. And she is ‘protected’ in a lovely arch of white.. which is often … and I am not kidding… a partially buried cast iron bathtub.

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